TERMS OF REFERENCE
Child Protection Graduate Programme, Capacity Building, and Fundraising Toolkit Consultancy
- Background
In the face of growing numbers of exploited children around the world, UNICEF and other international development and humanitarian organizations have noted an alarming shortage of sufficiently trained child protection professionals, especially during periods of emergency. The increased need for child protection expertise coupled with the dearth of qualified child protection professionals highlights a void in rigorous, graduate-level child protection training. To further promote the professionalization of the child protection sector and expand the cadre of qualified child protection policy-makers and field workers, UNICEF and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center (FXB) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) are jointly undertaking the development of a graduate-level certificate programme in child protection, which will expand to numerous universities especially in UNICEF programme countries. The curriculum development will be undertaken in 2013. Similarly, UNICEF is also collaborating with Save the Children and the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) to develop a Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) diploma programme, to which the graduate-level certificate programme must link.
Additionally, UNICEF has undertaken to develop a Child Protection fundraising toolkit. Such a toolkit currently exists in draft form, but needs to be finalized, early in 2013.
- Purpose
The consultant will support the collaborative effort between UNICEF and HSPH to develop and launch a pilot graduate-level curriculum in child protection to further UNICEF’s medium and long-term capacity building efforts. The child protection curriculum will be launched at HSPH, targeting mid-career professionals from all over the world whose daily responsibilities require an understanding of the international and domestic norms, policies and institutions that affect the world’s children, particularly vis-à-vis violence, exploitation and abuse. In addition to supporting the curriculum development, the consultant will also coordinate the work of an International Advisory Committee of regionally diverse child protection experts who will advise and guide the development of the curriculum and its scale-up to several other universities.
The consultant will also liaise with the UNICEF staff coordinating with Save the Children and the CPWG on the development of the CPiE diploma. As these two pieces of work are inherently linked, they must support and reinforce each other.
Additionally, the consultant will coordinate with other UNICEF offices, including the Division of Human Resources and the Organization Learning and Development office, to ensure that the graduate-level program and the CPiE diploma develop in line with organizational capacity building and professional development efforts. This will include taking into account internal UNICEF operational and administrative considerations.
Lastly, the consultant will also be responsible for helping to identify future funding for the graduate-level Child Protection programme for further expansion and future scale-up, as well as funding for the CPiE diploma programme and other capacity building activities, such as e-learning initiatives. Additionally, the consultant will be responsible for finalizing the Child Protection fundraising toolkit, currently in draft form; this will entail coordinating with Child Protection staff for inputs, developing the budget, ensuring it conforms to UNICEF and UNICEF national committee guidelines, and revising it based on the comments from the Child Protection Section Chief and other Section and UNICEF colleagues.
- Expected Results
• Organization of several conference calls and in-person meetings and recording and dissemination of meeting minutes and other documents to all parties • Organization of meetings and other communications of the International Advisory Committee, including recording and dissemination of meeting minutes and other documents and resources to all parties • Compilation and consolidation of inputs to the child protection curriculum, including conducting background research and consolidation of relevant materials and information, and ensuring that drafts align with and reinforce the CPiE diploma course • Research and networking support to the HSPH development team and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in their efforts to identify and procure future funding for the child protection graduate programme • Inputs into draft plans for expansion and future scale-up of the child protection graduate programme to various universities around the world, particularly in UNICEF programme countries • Reports drafted and finalised of programme progress and other communication to funders and other relevant stakeholders, as needed • Technical inputs and contributions provided to other organizational capacity development projects, in collaboration with other UNICEF offices, as needed • Finalized Child Protection fundraising toolkit, conforming to UNICEF and UNICEF national committee guidelines
- Location: The consultant will be home-based, but travel to UNICEF NYHQ and HSPH in Boston may be necessary.
- Duration: The consultancy is full-time over a period of 11 months.
- Key competences, technical background, and experience required
The consultant should have the following skills and qualifications: • Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD, JD, etc.) in a field related to child protection • Excellent communication (written and oral), analytical and strategic thinking skills • Experience in managing partnerships, preferably with academic institutions • Experience developing graduate level curriculum, preferably related to child protection issues • Previous fundraising experience (including in writing fundraising proposals), preferably with private foundations and the private sector • 5-8 years of work experience in a relevant field • Prior experience working with a UNICEF National Committee and private donors an asset • Fluency in English; French and/or Spanish an asset • Ability to work with minimal supervision • Evidence of ability to work with diplomacy in interaction with internal and external partners.
A physician’s certificate of good health and proof of health insurance coverage must be provided by the selected candidate prior to commencement of work.
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE - CONSULTANTS 1. LEGAL STATUS Individuals engaged under a consultant contract serve in a personal capacity and not as representatives of a Government or of any other authority external to the United Nations. They are neither “staff members” under the Staff Regulations of the United Nations and UNICEF policies and procedures nor “officials” for the purpose of the Convention of 13 February 1946 on the privileges and immunities of the United Nations. Consultants may, however, be given the status of “experts on mission” in the sense of Section 22 of Article VI of the Convention. If they are required to travel on behalf of the United Nations, they may be given a United Nations certification in accordance with Section 26 of Article VII of the Convention.
- OBLIGATIONS Consultants shall have the duty to respect the impartiality and independence of the United Nations and shall neither seek nor accept instructions regarding the services to be performed for UNICEF from any Government or from any authority external to the United Nations. During their period of service for UNICEF, consultants shall refrain from any conduct that would adversely reflect on the United Nations or UNICEF and shall not engage in any activity that is incompatible with the discharge of their duties with the Organization. Consultants are required to exercise the utmost discretion in all matters of official business of the Organization. In particular, but without limiting the foregoing, consultants are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service. Consultants are to comply with the UNICEF Standards of Electronic Conduct and the requirements set forth in the Secretary General’s Bulletin on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, both of which are incorporated by reference into the contract between the consultants and UNICEF. Unless otherwise authorized by the appropriate official in the office concerned, consultants shall not communicate at any time to the media or to any institution, person, Government or other authority external to UNICEF any information that has not been made public and which has become known to them by reason of their association with the United Nations. The consultant may not use such information without the written authorization of UNICEF. Nor shall the consultant use such information for private advantage. These obligations do not lapse upon cessation of service with UNICEF.
- TITLE RIGHTS UNICEF shall be entitled to all property rights, including but not limited to patents, copyrights and trademarks, with regard to material which bears a direct relation to, or is made in consequence of, the services provided to the Organization by the consultant. At the request of UNICEF, the consultant shall assist in securing such property rights and transferring them to the Organization in compliance with the requirements of the applicable law.
- TRAVEL If consultants are required by UNICEF to travel beyond commuting distance from their usual place of residence, such travel at the expense of UNICEF shall be governed by conditions equivalent to the relevant provisions of the 100 series of the United Nations Staff Rules (Chapter VII) and relevant UNICEF policies and procedures. Travel by air by the most direct and economical route is the normal mode for travel at the expense of UNICEF. Such travel will be by business class if the journey is nine hours or longer, and by economy class if the journey is less than nine hours, and first class by rail.
- MEDICAL CLEARANCE Consultants expected to work in any office of the Organization shall be required to submit a statement of good health prior to commencement of work and to take full responsibility for the accuracy of that statement, including confirmation that they have been fully informed regarding inoculations required for the country or countries to which travel is authorized.
- INSURANCE Consultants are fully responsible for arranging, at their own expense, such life, health and other forms of insurance covering the period of their services on behalf of UNICEF as they consider appropriate. Consultants are not eligible to participate in the life or health insurance schemes available to United Nations staff members. The responsibility of the United Nations and UNICEF is limited solely to the payment of compensation under the conditions described in paragraph 7 below.
- SERVICE INCURRED DEATH, INJURY OR ILLNESS Consultants who are authorized to travel at UNICEF’s expense or who are required under the contract to perform their services in a United Nations or UNICEF office, or their dependants as appropriate, shall be entitled in the event of death, injury or illness attributable to the performance of services on behalf of UNICEF while in travel status or while working in an office of the Organization on official UNICEF business to compensation equivalent to the compensation which, under Appendix D to the United Nations Staff Rules (ST/SGB/Staff Rules/Appendix D/Rev.1 and Amend.1), would be payable to a staff member at step V of the First Officer (P-4) level of the Professional category.
- ARBITRATION Any dispute arising out of or, in connexion with, this contract shall, if attempts at settlement by negotiation have failed, be submitted to arbitration in New York by a single arbitrator agreed to by both parties. Should the parties be unable to agree on a single arbitrator within thirty days of the request for arbitration, then each party shall proceed to appoint one arbitrator and the two arbitrators thus appointed shall agree on a third. Failing such agreement, either party may request the appointment of the third arbitrator by the President of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal. The decision rendered in the arbitration shall constitute final adjudication of the dispute.
- TERMINATION OF CONTRACT This contract may be terminated by either party before the expiry date of the contract by giving notice in writing to the other party. The period of notice shall be five days in the case of contracts for a total period of less than two months and fourteen days in the case of contracts for a longer period; provided however that in the event of termination on the grounds of misconduct by the consultant, UNICEF shall be entitled to terminate the contract without notice.
In the event of the contract being terminated prior to its due expiry date in this way, the consultant shall be compensated on a pro rata basis for no more than the actual amount of work performed to the satisfaction of UNICEF. Additional costs incurred by the United Nations resulting from the termination of the contract by the consultant may be withheld from any amount otherwise due to the consultant from UNICEF.
- TAXATION The United Nations and UNICEF undertake no liability for taxes, duty or other contribution payable by the consultant on payments made under this contract. No statement of earnings will be issued by the United Nations or UNICEF to the consultant.
How to apply:
Qualified candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, CV, and signed P11 form (which can be retrieved athttp://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_53129.html) to pdconsultants@unicef.org with subject line “CP Graduate Programme and Fundraising Consultant” by 12 February 2013. Please indicate your ability, availability and daily rate to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a daily rate will not be considered.
